In the Trenches 131 - Bubba Paris
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
We begin the episode by discussing the newest developments in the football world, including the next wave of COVID-19 testing at U-M (4:00), the Pac-12's conference game-only schedule (11:30) and a new nickname for Washington's NFL team (14:45). Then, as we celebrate the 40-year anniversary of the 1980 Big Ten and Rose Bowl Championship Team, Jon sits down with fellow offensive lineman great Bubba Paris. Paris puts the 1980 season in similar standing with his three Super Bowl titles (20:50), reflects on his reasoning for picking Michigan over Purdue (26:30), discusses teammates like John Wangler and Anthony Carter (29:45), breaks down the three things necessary for a championship season (37:40), and shares some stories from the big games in 1980 (44:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Today on In the Trenches, we're going to take a look back at the year 1980. |
| 0:05.5 | We're going to do that over a couple of episodes because it was a Big Ten championship season. |
| 0:10.6 | It was a Rose Bowl championship season. |
| 0:13.0 | And today we have one of Michigan's best offensive linemen to ever wear the winged helmet. |
| 0:20.1 | And that's Bubba Paris. We'll get to him next on In the Trenches. |
| 0:23.3 | Let's go In the Trenches with John Jansen. The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports |
| 0:28.6 | Hall of Famer will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches. I was just happy to be a part |
| 0:34.2 | of something. Great teammates, great people, great tradition, great fans. |
| 0:39.4 | I've been, I've had a chance to play in three Super Bowls, but I still stock that event, |
| 0:44.5 | and that experience with any of them. It was such a great experience. Once again, here's John Jansen. |
| 0:51.6 | Welcome back, friends, and as I mentioned, we're going to talk about the 1980 football season. |
| 0:56.5 | We're going to do that over a couple of episodes because today we're going to get to Bubba Paris. |
| 1:01.3 | I've got John Wengler coming up. We'll make sure we hit the defensive side of things because we play all three phases of the football. |
| 1:08.1 | We'll even see if we can talk to a special teamer. So those are some just a heads up on what's coming up on in the trenches. |
| 1:14.9 | But before we get there, we got some news and notes that we want to talk about. |
| 1:18.1 | And I'm going to bring in the voice, the play-by-play voice of Michigan basketball, Brian Bush. |
| 1:24.2 | Hello, John. How was your weekend? |
| 1:25.9 | Oh, weekend was great. Weekends are always good. And it's, |
| 1:30.0 | it was a little bit warm. But my son had a baseball tournament as some of the youth |
| 1:35.8 | programs are kicking back in. And he, I can say, he was the nine-you baseball champ up in |
| 1:43.4 | West Branch, Michigan. So we had a chance to go up there, |
| 1:46.5 | watch a little baseball and have a couple of games under the lights. It was a terrific weekend. |
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